This information should be read in conjunction with other public benefit activities listed in the left-hand menu. 

• The Patterdale Challenge.  An annual event held at our outdoor pursuits centre, Patterdale Hall, in the Lake District.  Over three days, 8 local secondary schools learn about life in the great outdoors and compete in a number of mental and physical challenges and competitions on the shores of Lake Ullswater.  For more information, click here

• Sixth Form students work as classroom assistants and mentors in local secondary schools

• Staff and Sixth Form hosted an Interview Day for Year 11 pupils from Westleigh School

• Girls' Division Sixth Form students took assemblies at Hayward School  

• the hosting of an annual Latin and Greek Reading Competition.  For more information, click here

• Science: the inaugural Institute of Physics Lecture is held at Bolton School which attracts 13 schools and 600 pupils from across the region: it marks the launch of the Ogden Trust Science Partnership - click here for more details

• Science: Bolton's Explosive Science Day for Year 10 Pupils - click here for more details

• Proposed Masterclass for Technology: using our laboratories and staff in partnership with local secondary schools and Bolton University

• proposed mentoring and joint programmes with Smithills and  Ladybridge schools

• Science: donation of text books to local schools, including Withins and Smithills

• Science: hosted meeting for local Science Technicians, including refreshments and tour of Science Department

• Head of Chemistry: runs a chemistry "camp" for senior students through Salters

• English: proposed reading group with local secondary schools

• Design Technology: share best practice at GCSE and A Level with Canon Slade School

• Design Technology: hosts visits by staff and Y11, 12 & 13 students from Canon Slade to view each other's proejct work

• Yr 11 & Sixth Form students help with Chorley Barnardo's Summer Play Scheme

• Examinations Centre: we accommodate external candidates requiring an examination centre

• Host MFL A Level Oral examinations

• ICT: links with local high school, St Joseph's, to share advice and expertise

• Mathematics: passes on used text books via Notts Police Aid Convoys

• Music: take part in annual Radio 4 broadcasts

• Music: the Parents and Friends of the School Chamber Choir is a community choir

• Besides working with the Parents' Choir, the Music Department also works with the Bolton Choral Union

• Music: provide many concerts for the community eg Concert Band Christmas Concert, Piano Festival, Great English Composers' Night, All Souls Service at St Anne's Parish Church, Lytham

• Music: the School owns a large stock of choir music and often lends out pieces to choirs and churches

• Music: external pupils often take their music exams at the School

• Music Workshops: organised by music department, local teachers invited 

• Religion, Philosophy and Pyschology: promote awareness of charity work and needs of others in the wider community

• Religion, Philosophy and Pyschology: encourage and offer guidance to pupils who volunteer to work in Offender Units for local teenagers